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Looks like DeDeceased on Feb 4th:

Tony Hopkins has won a "lifetime achievement award" at the Golden Globes. Am I wrong or is this generally a pre-cursor to being deceased? Tradition dictates that these awards are doled out to the infirm. One worth keeping tabs on methinks. An early candidate for Death List 2007? I think so - there, I've officially nominated him

Nicaraguan priest, politician and poet Ernesto Cardenal, who founded the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands. died at 95 years https://www.registercitizen.com/news/world/article/Ernesto-Cardenal-Nicaraguan-poet-and-priest-15097110.php

Sorry but the build up was too much and the programme was rubbish, I should never have gone back to it.

Died in 1981.

Specifically asks to be included in your prayers. I checked and he's never used a "remember me" or "include me" in his tweets before...

And Geoffrey Hayes and Bill Maynard.

Neither am I, but a screen shot copy/pasted seems to work.

I think he has a great shot at becoming the oldest man ever. I also envy his hairline. EDIT: Here's a video interview of him taken recently:

Well, I gave Yorkshire multiple warnings to get in his team at all, and he ends up being a no show. So as per rules, he has now been disqualified from the competition, and the highest ranking loser takes his place. Which is really good news for Sir Creep, who would’ve beaten every other team in the round. So he lives another days and faces me. I’m gonna add his team to the masterlist now and prepare my squonking. It will be up in a bit In the mean time, commiserations to Old Crem, LizLemon, Unknown Man, Annami, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Markb4, Sean, Joemoneypenny, Djemba Djemba, and Yorkshire Banker (DQ). Better luck next year?

Let's do another update after last week's flurry of hits... New hits are: Hosni Mubarak, Pearl Carr, Diana Serra Cary, Sonny Franzese and Katherine Johnson. All of them picked here and there... My pick Pete Felton is likely not going to get a QO, unless his chemo pal Reice Reilly aka "Patient Zero" delivers an indirect QO (he's still alive and posted a Pete Felton picture just last week). Ironically, the most popular name of all the relevant ones for this update, Henry Gray, is also missing a QO. One would have suspected that NYT obit at least... I hope I didn't miss anything - if so, inform me. The new scoreboard looks like this: Rank Team Points 1 Death Impends 381 2 gcreptile 350 3 RadGuy 342 4 Banana 341 5 Cpt. Chorizo 327 6 Clorox Bleachman 319 6 Joey Russ 319 8 Grave Danger 296 9 The Quim Reaper 294 10 Torva Messor 289 11 Deadsox 287 12 John Key 283 13 Skinny Kiltrunner 273 14 msc 269 15 drol 256 16 The Mad Hatter 241 17 JiroemonKimura 237 18 Book 236 19 The Unknown Man 234 20 Sir Creep 212 21 DevonDeathTrip 208 22 Etushispushingupdaisies 189 22 Toast 189 24 theoldlady 175 25 YoungWillz 170 26 Sean 166 27 Kenny 149 28 The Old Crem 144 29 Great Uncle Bulgaria 101 30 markb4 81 31 Chilean Way 68 32 ThePrematureBurial 58 33 Bibliogryphon 42 34 Pedro67 40 35 Gooseberry Crumble 0

Considering the names of current kids, I don't give much hope for the next one: Still, at least you are not Jacob Rees-Mogg's children:

Linda Robson has spoken out about her "battle with anxiety" and her alcohol self-medication: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8058339/Linda-Robson-rushed-rehab-Stacey-Solomon-suffering-breakdown-Ibiza.html

Olof Thunberg, Swedish actor, dead aged 94.

Just a Minute regular too. One of the very few people to go the full minute on a topic without a single interruption for hesitation, repetition, or deviation. More than once iirc.

And stop posting Instagram posts too. Can't you just write a sentence and put a link like everyone? Don't be offended, but I find it pretty unnerving. And the vast part of those posts actually don't carry information, only are old photos of old actresses on their birthday, celebrated on Instagram by some perfect unknown. What's the purpose of that?

Peter Ustinov is a good candidate for impending lack of life. Having seen recent documentaries about his life and career it's obvious he's looking very frail. He can't get around without the aid of a couple of sticks and he seems rather vulnerable. Surely a higher place (top 10) next year for the British film hero? A sure bet for 2004 methinks.

Gore Vidal - I think old Gore; novelist, essayist, political comentator and polemicist, might just be ripe for the final curtain. Its been over a year since he was on our shores looing very frail. Must be a candidate for 2010 - he's a sure-fire hit

No evidence...just a hunch. I think he does'nt look all that healthy actually. Seems a little creaking gate these days imho. Hope I'm mistaken

I think you fellas are missing the point. Shane's geting to the age where his excesses are catching up with him fast. I saw an interview with him done last year sometime and he looked like a corpse (OK, Keith Richards has managed that one for years but he's not exactly been a Shane-style boozer or drugie in recent years). Jim Morrison was thought to be a good candidate for corpsing back in 1970 around the time when Hendrix and Joplin pegged out, but everyone at the time said he was "too obvious" a choice. Just because the juvenile music press have been predicting Shane's demise for years, this should'nt be taken as any form of guide. A bunch of sixth-form tossers most of them. If anyone else apart from MacGowan looked or sounded like him, you guys would be falling over yourselves to nominate him.

The guy was obviously not keen on going out on his shield or committing suicide. The Yanks will keep him secure until there's a fully functioning Iraqi judiciary set up, which looking at the mess the place is in at the moment, could take years. Saddam ain't a good candidate for next year in my opinion, though doubtless I will be proved wrong in the first week of the New Year!

You're full of hate Birdie, live and let live mate. Long live Phil the Greek!

Oh come on now Birdie person, Phil the Greek is the most consistently entertaining member of the Royal Fambly. How can you say you want the bloke dead? He's the perfect antidote to the corporate-safe generation, a man who comes out with wonderfully innapropriate comments at all the right times. The fact that he murders wildlife by the score and is a member of the WWF just adds to his charm. There are too many humourless PC-centric media types blowing his comments out of all proportion anyway. Why cant you just accept the fact that he's a man from a different generation who has very little impact on the world we live in? He's in damn good shape for his age though, like all the Windsors, and hoping for his imminent death is a little far-fetched just now, I feel.

A prime candidate for assassination if ever there was one. There's the outside chance of a nasty accident being arranged for him if he continues to be naughty. He's doing well for the age he is mind.